Payroll Tax Analyst

Remote | Long-term Contract with potential to convert FTE

Senior Payroll Business Analyst

• ******This role sits at the intersection of Payroll Operations, Payroll Tax, SAP ECP, Reporting, and Business Analysis .
• They will help investigate payroll and tax issues, analyze impacts, support testing and change requests, and partner with Payroll Tax, HRIS, Finance, and Payroll stakeholders to drive issues through resolution.
• This is NOT a pure payroll processor, payroll manager, HRIS implementation, or payroll tax analyst role.
• The ideal candidate can bridge payroll operations and systems while helping the team work through a large backlog of payroll, tax, and SAP ECP-related issues.

MUST-HAVES

Payroll

• 7+ years of payroll experience
• Complex multi-state payroll
• Payroll audits and reconciliations
• Payroll issue resolution

Payroll Tax

• Payroll tax investigation experience
• Tax notices, withholding issues, unemployment claims, tax compliance, or tax reconciliations
• Ability to research and analyze issues, not just escalate to vendors

SAP ECP

• Hands-on SAP Employee Central Payroll experience
• Payroll processing, auditing, reporting, testing, or troubleshooting within ECP
• Understanding of payroll results, wage types, audits, and payroll impacts

Analysis

• Root-cause analysis
• Payroll reporting
• Strong Excel
• Ability to assess business impact and prioritize work

Preferred

• ADP SmartCompliance
• BSI TaxFactory
• Payroll Control Center (PCC)
• Canadian payroll exposure
• CPP

Candidates should be able to explain:

✅ How they identified the issue

✅ What data/reports they reviewed

✅ Business impact

✅ Employee impact

✅ Compliance impact

✅ Why they prioritized the issue

✅ How they drove resolution

✅ How they validated the fix

Candidates who primarily discuss payroll processing, ticket routing, or vendor escalation will likely NOT be a fit.

DAY-TO-DAY

• Investigate payroll, payroll tax, and compliance issues
• Perform payroll audits and reconciliations
• Analyze payroll data and reporting
• Support SAP ECP testing, validation, and change requests
• Partner with Payroll Tax, HRIS, Finance, and Benefits teams
• Review payroll outputs and identify discrepancies
• Help prioritize and resolve payroll tax notices and compliance issues
• Support process improvements and documentation
• Assist with ECP-related troubleshooting and impact analysis

compensation: ~$35-55/hour. exact compensation will vary dependent on level of experience, scope, education, location, etc. Benefit packages for this role include healthcare insurance offerings, pension/ 401K, and paid leave as provided by applicable law.